Now that the FDA has authorized the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, the logistical feat of delivering it to the world begins. Early tomorrow morning, FedEx and UPS trucks will be rolling from Pfizer’s massive plant in Portage, MI to Gerald R. Ford International Airport (GFIA) in Grand Rapids, MI where FedEx and UPS airplanes will be ready to start the major task of distributing the vaccine’s across the country to 636 sites over the next three days — 145 Monday, 425 Tuesday and 66 on Wednesday. In total, 2.9 million doses will ship next week from Pfizer plants in Michigan and Wisconsin.
The GFIA airport’s 10,000-foot runway makes it possible for the largest aircraft to be fully loaded and have enough runway to take off with all that weight. Just an hour away from Pfizer, the airport is ideally suited for this task.
In three weeks, they will be doing this all again when another three million doses will ship to complete the two-shot series.